Chapter 7 Verse 23 Bhagvat Gita

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Chapter 7 Verse 23 Bhagvat Gita

Post by Pravin Kumar » Sun Feb 23, 2014 11:56 am

Chapter 7, Verse 23



“Those of small minds

Only pray for that

Which is transient and perishable.

Those who love the gods

Go to the gods,

But those who love me

Come unto me.”



Sri Aurobindo:



“Krishna is saying in so many words, ‘Those who have resort to me as their refuge, their divine light, their deliverer, who turn to me in their spiritual effort towards release from the mortal being and its limitations, attain to me.  They reach the very highest status of the divine.’



To him who is the source of all that we are, we give all that we are.  The passion of love in our self-giving carries us up to him, opening the mystery of his deepest heart of being.  Love completes the worship.  In this vision is revealed a glimpse of the principle of self-fulfillment in the divine nature.  When we are one with him in spirit, we do not lose ourselves but rather recover our true selves in him, poised in the supremacy of this infinite.  Most decisive of all, there develops an integral self-giving through love and devotion of our whole being to this all and this supreme, the master of our works, the inhabitant of our hearts.”



Sri Eknath  Easwaran:



“In the deepest levels of our consciousness, all of us are praying constantly, and when the prayer becomes intense enough and consistent enough, we will live out our lives in such a way that that prayer is answered.  The difference is in what we pray for.  When we worship the gods of the sense-world…wealth, power, pleasure, and status…we will get more and more caught up in the world of change.  When we try to give all our love to the Lord of love, Krishna is reminding us, we will gradually become unaffected by any change, even the great change called death.



The key to understanding this is Shraddha [faith], which supports our whole outlook on life.  As conditioned human beings, we share the deep conviction that we are separate, that we are the body, that our nature and behavior are conditioned by our genes.  In this verse, Krishna reminds us that the more we identify with the world of Prakriti and its accessories, the physical world of change, the more will we be subject to the ravages of time and eventually death.  But by placing our Shraddha in the Lord, who is our real Self, we gradually come to remember our real nature, and the passage of time affects us less and less.  Finally, when our faith in God becomes unshakeable, we become united with him completely.  Then, when the time comes to shed the body, there is no rupture in consciousness, any more than there is when we pass from one room to another.



This is Krishna’s promise in this verse.  Shraddha is not blind faith.  It is trust in spiritual values, and it is confidence in their applicability, both of which bloom as our experience deepens.  Shraddha grows and matures over a long period of time, as we try out and experiment with these timeless values in our own lives.  In the beginning, all we need do is trust them enough to give them a try.”



Srila Prabhupada:



“The Supreme Lord is unlimited.  His favor is unlimited.  His mercy is unlimited. Therefore, the mercy of the Supreme Lord upon his pure devotees is unlimited.”
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